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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Here is a showing especially annoying in the absence of great dispute that Harvard affords the widest and most thorough opportunities for students in America. Fair minded people, I think, do not hesitate to accept the idea that Harvard has more educational advantages than Yale to offer, although they may question whether the student is as much pressed into accepting them. Her faculty, system of instruction, library, and tone of surrounding give her an unequalled and always increasing educational value, and no person would pass her by as insufficient in an academic aspect. That her numbers do not increase...
...American Meteorological Jourual has decided to offer the following prizes: For the best original essay on tornadoes, or description of a tornado, $200 will be given. For the second best $50. Among those especially worthy of mention $50 will be distributed. The desire is to especially direct the attention of students to tornadoes. in hopes that valuable results may be obtained. The offer is open to all collegiate students of the United States, and the essays must be sent before July 1, 1889, either to Professor Harrington, Astronomical Observatory, Ann Arbor, Mich, or to A. L. Rotch, Blue Hill Meteorological...
...honors to go out and play the rest of the fall. Freshmen especially should try the game. Who knows what new material may be developel? And if men cannot be aroused by an appeal to their patriotism, perhaps the promise of a healthful exercise and a fine game may offer an attraction...
Over four hundred new students have registered at Cornell this term bringing the total in attendance there to more than 1200, the largest registration in the history of the University. There are over one hundred graduates of other colleges taking advantage of the offer of free tuition to post graduates. The number of students in the law department and in the school of pharmacy is also largely increased. Sage college, the women's department, has so many students that the faculty are finding it difficult to provide accommodation for all. Indications all point to a very successful year...
...coming from the same section of country to be on more intimate terms with each other than a mere nodding acquaintance. The twin cities of Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, have grown enormously during the past few years and the young men are looking to the east where universities offer more advantages for pursuing different branches of study than the few colleges near their own homes. Aside from the pleasure arising from the social intercourse between the students now in college, the club will doubtless prove a great benefit to freshmen coming from Minnesota as a means by which they...